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The Federal Government shall be in charge of our BORDERS and IMMIGRATION policy When the Federal Government fails at its job and illegals enter the United States, LEAVING the BORDER area, any and all law-enforcement personnel still working and any and all patriotic citizens may, in defense of the country, do whatever is necessary to see that the law-breaker is removed from American jurisdiction. If that requires sending Europeans back to their continent by dumping them at the airport, that’s the extent of the taxpayer money that may be spent. As good neighbors, Mexicans and Canadians will be given the...

In an earlier statement released before dawn, shortly after the attack, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called on North Korea to "to halt its belligerent action and to fully abide by the terms of the armistice agreement," the 1953 pact that ended the Korean War. Gibbs said the White House "is in close and continuing contact" with the South Korean government. "The United States is firmly committed to the defense of our ally, the Republic of Korea, and to the maintenance of regional peace and stability," he said.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush hailed the health of the US small business sector, using a neighborhood hardware store a short drive from the White House as a homespun backdrop. The president hailed what he described as a roaring US economy and its healthy jobs growth, after picking up few chew toys for Barney, the White House dog. "I just spent some of my hard-earned money on Barney," the president said during the photo-op at Frager's, an old-fashioned hardware store that he praised as "a good place to shop."

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Believers must exercise their Christian citizenship beyond the ballot box to halt activist judges and secularist senators who are robbing Americans of their religious liberty, R. Albert Mohler Jr. told a nationwide audience April 24 during “Justice Sunday” at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, was one of several speakers at the event, which was designed to mobilize Christians to action against judicial filibusters, which Democrat senators have used to block 10 of President Bush’s appellate court nominees. In most of the cases, senators objected to the nominees' pro-life views. The...

U.S. Senator James J. (for Janus) Jeffords appeared on a live call in show on VT Public TV tonight. He spent most of his opening remarks trashing President Bush and his policies. I lucked out and got to pose a couple of questions to him.

On Independence Day, we remember names like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin --and we honor their courage and vision. We are grateful that our Founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to create an independent America. And we are thankful that this Nation under God is still free, independent, and the best hope of mankind. America is a place of freedom and opportunity. We are caring toward neighbors in need and generous to the sick and struggling. We are a strong, decent, and good-hearted country. All of us are blessed to be citizens of the United States...

Diversity is number one priority at University of Vermont Below is the transcript of the WCAX-TV story on the UVM convocation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two years ago the University of Vermont revived its tradition of starting the year with a convocation. This morning, the school took the occasion to set a tone. A well - known expert on diversity and affirmative action took the stage. Joan Ritchie reports. 12} UVM_PKG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Vermont President Dan Fogel files in to mondays convocation along with another University President. Lee Bollinger is the head of Columbia University ...but he was the president of the...

He's here! 600 protestors. Be careful out there Freepers! Spipers on the roofs at PDX

The Washington Post reported today (Friday) that US President Harry S. Truman, generally regarded as having been supportive of Jewish aspirations in Israel, as well as concerned to relieve the suffering of Jewish refugees in post-WWII Europe, had some very unkind thoughts about Jews. This according to a Truman diary only recently, and serendipitously, discovered on the shelves of the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, reports the Post. "The Jews, I find are very, very selfish," Truman wrote in a 1947 diary entry. "They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as...

Go to the link and look at top dead center, you'll see the link for the live webcast.

Pakistan Pres. Unsure Osama Planned 9/11 - Report Sun Aug 4, 3:59 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a key ally in the U.S. fight against terrorism, is not convinced that Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a report on Sunday. "I didn't think it possible that Osama sitting up there in the mountains could do it," Musharraf said in an interview in the Aug. 12 edition of the New Yorker magazine, nearly a year after hijacked planes killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Washington and in...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Peres says Shehada bombing was '100 percent mistake' HAMBURG - Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Saturday that the IDF assassination of Hamas leader Salah Shehada's house in Gaza overnight Monday was a "100 percent mistake." "Yes it was a miscalculation, one hundred percent a mistake. The outcome shows clearly we used the wrong weapon. The bomb caused more harm than good," Peres told the German news magazine Der Spiegel, in an interview released ahead of publication on Saturday. "Mistakes...